Kansas City Chiefs Alum Mitch Schwartz’s Wife Slams Harrison Butker for Quoting Taylor Swift in Speech
The fallout surrounding Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech continues.
Brooke Schwartz, the wife of former Chiefs offensive tackle Mitchell Schwartz, is speaking out with her own “controversial” take on his remarks, in which he quoted Taylor Swift’s “Bejeweled” lyrics while touting his own conservative Catholic beliefs and attacking what he called “dangerous gender ideologies.”
“I’m going to sound controversial since Mitch was teammates with him for many years. I’ve stayed quiet about a lottttt of things but this is absolutely so gross and backwards to me,” Brooke wrote on her Instagram Story, according to multiple reports and screenshots shared on X (formerly Twitter).
She then paraphrased a portion of Butker’s address to the graduating class at Benedictine College, writing, “All my success is made possible… etc… because my wife embraced the most important title of all, homemaker.”
“This is what we’re telling young women graduating college?” she questioned. “That the most important thing they can become is a homemaker??? What in the Handmaid’s Tale is this crap.”
Brooke clarified that women should, of course, be fully supported in their own decision-making power regarding career and family.
“Telling young women this on their college graduation day, after years of hard work, that the thing they should probably most look forward to in life is becoming someone’s wife….I beg your pardon?” she continued. “I value and respect whatever a woman chooses for her life. But it is NEVER, EVER a man’s place to tell women what their roles are.”
She then referenced Butker’s choice to invoke the words of teammate Travis Kelce’s girlfriend, Swift, by noting in his speech, “As my teammate’s girlfriend says, ‘familiarity breeds contempt.'”
“I find it odd he quoted Taylor Swift in his propaganda piece,” Brooke wrote. “Is he unaware of her very public views??”
Swift, herself, has been an outspoken advocate of female and LGBTQ empowerment.
Butker began his address last weekend by attacking what he called “dangerous gender ideologies” in an apparent reference to Pride month, which has been celebrated in June since the Stonewall riots in 1969. He also criticized an article by The Associated Press highlighting a shift toward conservativism in some parts of the Catholic Church.
The 28-year-old Butker then took aim at President Joe Biden’s policies, including his response to COVID-19, which has killed nearly 1.2 million people in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique,” he said. “The bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for the degenerate cultural values and media all stem from pervasiveness of disorder.”
Butker later addressed the women in the audience, arguing that their “most important title” should be that of “homemaker.”
“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you,” Butker said. “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”
